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Blake's line from Jerusalem, 'What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, and eternal death': what one imagines and accepts is real for oneself and bears its consequences, so beliefs are never harmless.

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Jerusalem | What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, and eternal death
Jerusalem 36 | Divine Mercy steps beyond, and redeems man, in the body of Jesus
Own wordings
It is a simple truth about the law of assumption, and a warning of the consequences of its misuse
What you see when you look at something depends not so much on what is there as on the assumption you make when you look
What you believe to be the real physical world is actually only an assumptive world

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I believe with William Blake, “What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, and eternal death.”
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So, I can now build using the same principle: What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be. Well, can I not assume that things are as I would like them to be, for myself, for you, for anyone else in the world?
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Those in great eternity who contemplate on death said thus
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we take the same principle: What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and take it in a different light and prove it…though the whole thing will fade in the end.
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Wasn’t that torment? A man living with a prejudice, isn’t he tormented? Anyone in this world with a prejudice, isn’t he really living in hell?
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but Divine Mercy steps beyond and redeems man in the body of Jesus
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If I dare to assume that I am it and walk this earth just as though it were true, if I could live just as though it were true, then I would prove that statement.
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Remember what was said earlier, “What you see when you look at something depends not so much on what is there as on the assumption you make when you look.”
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What you see when you look at something depends not so much on what is there as on the assumption you make when you look.
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for what seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be
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It is a simple truth about the law of assumption, and a warning of the consequences of its misuse.
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“What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be”
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